The weather did not cooperate with us today, but luckily we were up early for our morning run. Much shorter today...3 miles in total starting in Soho again running east to the River, through the Meatpacking District and the ending in Chelsea. We ran partially through the new Highline Park, which was built on old railroad tracks. It is one of the …

Woah-oh, so I went away for the weekend and I already feel like I'm running a 100 years behind on my studying actually. But, nevertheless, it was a GREAT experience. So after that I graduated, it was my birthday & it was time foooooorrr... My mid term, meh. But I was actually going for: NEW YORK!

Last night after 23 hours of international flight traversing time zones from Australia, my sister and I finally arrived in New York late in the afternoon. Exhausted we just wanted to find a local restaurant and then crash out early. Luckily we found a little gem of a Mexican Restaurant called Mole where we partook in some yummy Mexican food, made …

We arrived at New York's JFK after a long overnight flight and caught a bus straight to Grand Central Station, from where we walked out into the sunny New York morning as busy New Yorkers begun their days coffee and pretzels in hand. We toyed with the idea of walking the few streets up to our accommodation which was located in the Upper East Side …

Our second day of sightseeing started out with a classic New York thing to do - walking across the Brooklyn Bridge. But before we got there, we experienced another classic New York thing - subway maintenance. We need to switch from the F Train to the A train but due to maintenance, the A train was running on the F train track. It worked out OK at …

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